In what might seem a counterintuitive view, I'm perfectly fine with a charter school skipping the Pledge of Allegiance. Charter schools are attended by choice, and therefore can be selective of students and faculty. If a charter school has a particular student body made up of immigrants or others who don't value our cultural idiosyncrasies, then I think the school principal should be free to proceed in a culturally sensitive way.

Put bluntly: This is a free country, and we should be free to attend whatever school, and do whatever cultural things that aren't illegal or harm others. But the mob thinks differently.

Georgia House Speaker David Ralston, R-Blue Ridge, weighed in, praising the Pledge of Allegiance's tenets and ending with, “I’m sure our House Education Committee will examine whether taxpayer funds should be used to instill such a divisive ideology in our students.”

Let's talk about school choice and taxpayer funds. I'd rather have those funds support schools that cater to specific cultural and educations needs, and focus on quality, than the "government one-size-fits-all" indoctrination centers favored by the left.

It may be an unpopular opinion, but I think politicians are grandstanding and preening for the mob here.

Georgia law requires schools to set aside time to recite the pledge. But students cannot be compelled to recite it. To me, it's more important to preserve the liberty for a charter school to serve its students than to force them to do what the mob wants.

Liberals will use this to bolster the argument that charter schools should just go away, because the alternative is that they support charter schools and individual liberty. But Republican politicians and the outrage mob let them off the hook.

Look at it this way. If a charter school decided to set aside one minute a day for students to read their Bibles quietly, and to pray for each other, Democrats would rev up their outrage mob to a fever pitch. But I'd fight for that school's right to liberty. Liberty cuts both ways. And siding with the mob is never good.

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Subvet72

3 days

Regardless of what others think, given the original decision made by the administrators, that is not a school where I would choose to send my children to.

RodDC

3 days

The illogical point is, “If a charter school has a particular student body made up of immigrants or others who don't value our cultural idiosyncrasies, then I think the school principal should be free to proceed in a culturally sensitive way.”

If the student body is made up of those who being here is a privilege and not a right, and do not appreciate our culture, then they shouldn’t be here at all, especially living on the bounty of this country and those taxpayers that fund it.

heimdall

3 days

the actual problem is state run indocrtrination centers
as a tax [extorted money] supported school it makes sense that it can be required to do as das stassi wants
if this was an actual choice school that would go bankrupt with idiot decisions i might argue otherwise

E.E. Bokbok

4 days

So now Republicans think taxpayers should fund people's random whims in the name of "choice". Interesting.

AJ_Liberty

4 days

So, the Pledge states: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." I'm curious how this could be made more inclusive....or what alternative pledge might be more appropriate...how about, I pledge to not get knocked up, smoke weed behind the school, bully my classmates, or waste classroom time....so help me all powerful state and trusted media.